Star Tribune

From medicine garden to language classes, Native education is growing in Rochester schools

ROCHESTER - Coen Wagner was a digging machine outside Dakota Middle School last Friday. And it was welcomed. The 8-year-old helped plant in the school’s medicine garden last fall — crops that included ...
West Central Tribune

University of Minnesota students studying Dakota language reflect on program’s future

MINNEAPOLIS — Introduced in fall 2023, the University of Minnesota’s new Dakota language major is part of the movement throughout Dakota communities to increase the number of Dakota language speakers ...
inforum

Spreading the word: Project uses translated rap music as means for younger American Indians to learn native language

Tammy DeCoteau devotes much of her time thinking about how she can coax children into doing something that came naturally to their great-grandparents: speak in their native Dakota language. In recent ...
The Bismarck Tribune

Monthly Dakota Hymn Sing keeping Dakota language alive

FORT PIERRE, S.D. — Red is the color of the Holy Spirit, so it's fitting that it's the color of the door to St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Fort Pierre. But recently, for Native Americans who grew up ...